oh crap, i better buy a Nokia 5800 express music. Do I have a better option? pls tell me...
email, skype video call, maps, music, photos, etc. and all working on 5800.

Well, nothing to add here, just another post to express how angry I am that I paid $550 for a device that the manufacturer does not seem to care to support.

Don't think I'm not embarrassed to be a troll in an internet forum. Please take it like part of my therapy.

:-)

After reading many other posts about Nokia support for N900 I am getting each time less optimistic, so I think this is probably a mistake from the marketing team...

Besides that, I've mailed Nokia Support and they answered that the team from Ovi Suite is working with Maemo team to add support, but didn't say when... The real questions is: why haven't they talked BEFORE N900 was released!????? Didn't they all work for the same company!?

Rethinking this, I would say that Nokia enthuasically providing links to this 'not supported' message is one of the most pathetic foot-shootings I've seen for several years. Couldn't N900 owners be routed to a message that doesn't treat them like idiots with an unauthorized device?

On Nokias Ovi Suite FAQ
Is Nokia N900 compatible with OVI Suite?

Currently not. So, if you have PC Suite installed on to your computer and you see pop-up information about new OVI Suite update, you do not need to update just yet.

Right next to a big pic of a N900. Misadvertising or what.
http://support.ovi.com/index.php?id=...FA128462_en_US

I totally agree!

Nokia should really consider leaning more towards the N900 and it's community if they want to gain share in this market. After their first tablets this one could become something serious, it they treat it as such.

Apple gets this bit just right, and it shows. Seth Godin understands it. Embrace your tribe.

Considering the target audience of geeks - i.e. people who know better than to install random crap vendors nundle with their hardware, I'm always surprised to see people actually want the ovi/pc suite crud...

After reflecting on how the the N900 has been presented so far, I don't think showing a picture of an N900 while promoting a service that isn't supported is a mistake.

It fits a pattern of subtle deception that has been present since the first pre-launch pictures of the N800 started to appear in blogs and tech sites.

These Nokia "press kit" images showed the N800 with a navigation program running on the screen. This program turned out to be a third party app called Navicore that wasn't ready for sale until almost 3 months after the N800's release.

I also remember a video for a service provider showing a young businessman walking down the street using an N800 in a high resolution video conference. Not only did the display not drop a frame, but the dudes hair was perfect.... Marketing never makes mistakes.

I was eventually happy with what the N800 finally did deliver but it never was a universal video chat client and the $149 Navicore app set a new standard for suckiness.

Since then I have been an avid supporter of Maemo and this community. After all, it was this community and not Nokia that contributed to my overall positive experience with the N800 / N810.

This time however, Nokia's deceptive marketing practices are over the line and affect more people and have cost more money.

The OVI brand has always been co-opted with the N900. The word "OVI" can be seen somewhere in most screen shots and advertising collateral. Plus the dang thing shipped with an OVI shortcut and an OVI widget.

It was reasonable to expect that the OVI services available to this newer N900 would be at least as good as those available for older, less expensive Nokia devices. I am not talking about the "free navigation" that was recently announced, I am talking about all the core OVI services that are available through a fully functioning OVI suite installed on a PC.

Nokia should be held accountable for this whopper. I hope it starts in this forum perhaps with these two guys seen in this video posted, you guessed it... on an OVI media blog site >> http://share.ovi.com/media/nokiablog...kiablogs.10094

I don't in anyway want to imply that these guys are accountable for Nokia's marketing practices. Rather, I'm suggesting that since Nokia used them to roll the Maemo message down to this community, it makes sense that they can roll back up this communities response to the current marketing practices.

I hope that the message is something like:

"The people who belong and contribute to maemo.org didn't just fall off the dang turnip truck. Most already know what they want and at times are more knowledgeable about the capabilities of a new device before many within Nokia's own organization are. Stop treating them like children who are distracted easily and can be redirected with bells and whistles."

Nokia will more than likely pull through in it's final firmware release... and that will pro'ly come just a few weeks before the next device is available to developers. Just as it did with Diablo.

This time however, it could be too late as the Maemo user base has substantially widened and has a louder "voice" that is heard in many other outlets.

Anyone has any news if I or when Ovi Suite will support N900?

Also, is that thing built on Qt? Why no linux version of it?

well these guys seem to think it's for mainstream consumers as well as for geeks. OH, and specifically mention Ovi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNbPAgcHMw